Israel’s flag march ‘wiping out Palestine’s identity’

The Palestinian foreign ministry on Wednesday blasted Israeli authorities’ decision to approve a flag march through occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli authorities on Wednesday said they have given the go-ahead for flag-waving Jewish nationalists to march through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City later this month, in a decision that threatens to re-ignite violence in the holy city. Last year, as tensions over Israeli settler and state violence Sheikh Jarrah peaked, the Israeli authorities diverted the parade flag march route away from Damascus Gate and Palesti…

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